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Submitted by david elman, Sep 19, 2007 23:07

The US has not had real leadership since Nixon. He at least got us out of Vietnam, even though Congress screwed it up afterwards. Let's face it, every American president since Carter has dropped the ball on Iran and the rest of the middle east. Today, Bush has tried to do something but has withered on the vine.

The fact is, Iran and its proxies and allies are steadily moving forward to their goal of controlling the world's economy and agenda. If geopolitics means anything, that is the meaning today. And where is our leadership on this vital issue? Nowhere I can see it, just a lot of "coulds" and "shoulds" and "whatifs".

There isn't anyone with the balls to do what really is necessary and completely barbarian: utterly destroy Syria and Iran. Once they are gone, and this I mean literally, then the world will be able to recover some sanity. Waiting for the "shoe to drop" will do nothing. And we are in this position because of Carter, Reagan, Bush one, Clinton, and Bush two.

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The US has not had real leadership since Nixon. He at least got us out of Vietnam, even though Congress...	david elman	Sep 19, 2007 23:07
Syria, Iran, North Korea, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Queda are all the same: terrorists. America should strike at them whenever... [MORE]	Roy Winans	Sep 19, 2007 17:24
How can Ros-Lehtinen possibly be in Congress? She makes sense and is proactively forwarding America's interests. Dealing with Syria is... [MORE]	Art Fry	Sep 19, 2007 14:29
It is about time that the U.S., Israel, and Europe held Syria accountable in the strongest possible terms (and war... [MORE]	Joseph Clark	Sep 19, 2007 12:56
I don't get it. I thought Syria was our ally. Didn't Nancy Pelosi, Tom Lantos and Dennis Kucinich recently visit... [MORE]	Steven Gruber	Sep 19, 2007 10:34
Illeana Ross-Lehtinen article about Syria is so rediculous that would make Benjamin Netaniahu, the Israeli super-hawk politician, look like a... [MORE]	Nikos Retsos, academic	Sep 19, 2007 10:04
The title of the Paul Simon song is a good commentary on Mr. Retsos' comments (actually his term for the... [MORE]	John Spencer Yantiss	Sep 19, 2007 16:57
About time somebody in Congress got serious about the ridiculous Assad regime. Among other things, reining him in of him... [MORE]	Yigal Kahana	Sep 19, 2007 19:53
that Israel and Syria sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. [MORE]	gregdn	Sep 19, 2007 09:44
So you are going to liberate Syria just like you liberated Iraq with it's 700,000 civilian dead as a result.... [MORE]	william Alexander	Sep 19, 2007 06:15